... THE HOUSE OF COMMONS THE TRUE BASIS FOR I ADMNIINISTIATI1V REFOrM. (From the Editibargh Roview.) The public are supremely unjust when they chal- lenge the Government to employ men of higher ability, of greater energy, ald in the vigour of youth in high offices, for it is not the Government which (gives servants to the State, but the public, and more i he constituencies of England, which regu- ...

... I (From the Times,) Southampton, Oct. 30. By the Royal Mail Company's steamship La Plata, Captain George Weller, with the West India, Mexican, and Pacific mails, in charge of Lieutenant Scriven, R.N., Admiralty agent, we have dates from Tampico, Sept. 30; Havana, (Jet. 10; Jamaica, (et. 12; Jactnel, Oct. 13; Porto Rzico, Oct. 15; Trinidad, Oct. 10; Barbadoes, Oct. 13; St. Thomas, Oct. 16. La ...

... m1 - A _1 I 1. . - . . .. f 1T s - w - V Vt - t X. 1 X IS - The Council resolved itself into a meeting of water commis- sioners. The minutes of the last meeting of commissioners and of the t various committee meetings were read by Air. Burnet, tile clerk. a Bailie TAYLOR gave notice that he would move that the Water Committee should consist of the whole commissioners, viz., the Council, so ...

... A U S T R A L I A. r . (From the Times.) Southampton, Nov. 14. By the arrival of the Royal Mail Company's steam-ship Atrato last night, with the West India and Pacific mails, we receive, vid Panama, dates from Melbourne, August 15; Syd- ney, August 18. At Victoria a groat publi r meeting bad been held for the a purpose of organising an association to agitate for the opening of the Crown lands. ...

... I-Irobilidat . nIttlflenct. _ .- PRESENTATION TO SIR COLIN CAMtPBtEU.-As an instance of the unprecedentetl cantiusinsir wiich per- vades all classes of thc community in regald to thc presentation of a sword to Sir Colin Campbel, evwc may mention that a gentleman belonging to the rost- Office opcned a subscription list on Saturday cveniog, and in less than two hours every officer in the estn- ...

... 6- ?? . THE TIHOMSONIAN COLLECTION. TO THE5 EDITOR OF TIlE CALEDONIAN BIERCU RT. SIR,-I am hn mineralogist, and therefore have perused with no small astonishment the statements made by some of your correspondents, in recent num- bers, in regard to this collection. But more-I am a citizen of Edinburgh, and as such feel no slight in- dignation at the extraordinary manner in which our ...

... ?? 7,77- ili(IRD EDITIONO MERCURY OFFICE, THREr O'CLOCIL LONDON CORN MARKET-FRIDAY. Price for English wheat same as last Monday, with few buyers. Foreign held firmly; millers cautious. Flour not lower, but slow sale. Prime barley wanted, but little doing in common. A moderate trade in oats, but best sorts not lower. Rape and linseed a little cheaper. Arrivals :-British wheat. 3290; barley, ...

... Works, Woodside, Large quantity of BRASS, STEEL, METAL, &c., the materials of Thirty Hand Mules broken up, being the remainder of the Spinning Machinery which belonged to Messrs Gordon, Barron, & Co. Sale to begin at Eleven o’clock Forenoon. ALEX. MASSON. 8, St Nicholas Street, 22d October, 1855. ...

... AT a MEETING, on the 7th November, Mrs Young'S Whitecairns, of the Journeymen Boot and Shoemakers’ of the Parishes of T>- es, Udny, Newmachar, Foveran and Bclhelvie, it was resolve*/* '\at the Price of their labour should be raised, to which the Ma. have agreed, notwithstanding the untoward state of the Tra thereby putting it in the power their workmen to better tb >ndition. The names of those ...

... (From the Spectator.) I ?? is power, writes the philosopher1 with pr a flourish; but tenl to one, if you place before him thle WI things about which lie koows, and ask him to do with get each that which ought to be done with it, hie will tell tin you hie does not know. He who exultingly applies to wc himself, with Isis encyclopiediacal survey of things inre ,genera], the immortal maxim of ...

... POLICE RETURN.-WORKING OF FORBES MACKENZIE'S ACT. We have been favoured with a copy of the following inter r esting return, ordered by the Police Committee, and furnished f by Capt. Smart, Superintendent of Police, in reference to the f working of the New Act for the better regulation of Public s Houses in Glasgow. The return, it will be observed, in as cordance with the order upon which it ...

... tV Her Majesty held a Privy Council at Windsor on 81 Wednesday afternoon.-Globe. n The Duke of Argyll will be the new Postmaster- ti General. He will, for the present, also hold his office d of Lord Privy Seal; but this arrangement is only temporary, his Grace ultimately resigning the latter n office. We doubt not that the Post Office department it will greatly benefit by the energy and ...